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Not sure how rare it is, but it looks like a neat error for not a whole lot of green... wish I'd seen it. image
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  • Steve27Steve27 Posts: 13,274 ✭✭✭
    Amazingly cheap!

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  • laurentyvanlaurentyvan Posts: 4,243 ✭✭✭
    How could the Bahamas/New Zealand mule get created? Are there two different mints? Is a New Zealand mint also producing for the Bahamas? Is this a ... created coin, especially for the numismatic market requiring collusion between employees of two different mints?

    There exists a well-known Australian/Fiji 20c mule- I guess the same question applies...

    And not only that, this coin appears to be struck in Bronze instead of the normal Bahamas Cop-Nic.image
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  • PlanchetPlanchet Posts: 294
    The answer as to how two different countries coinage can combine to make a mule relates to how coins are minted. Many countries contract out with larger mints to have their coinage made. Two of the larger operations of this type are the British Royal Mint and the Royal Canadian Mint. Back in 1967 if I recall correctly, one of those two mints was making coinage for both New Zealand and the Bahamas. That is how you can get a mule such as that. Hope that helps- Planchet
  • MyWorldCoinTypeSetMyWorldCoinTypeSet Posts: 1,331 ✭✭✭
    It's a Made in Canada mule.

    The price is a little cheap, but not completely unreasonable. Quite a few were made.
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  • FilamCoinsFilamCoins Posts: 1,899 ✭✭✭


    << <i>It's a Made in Canada mule.

    The price is a little cheap, but not completely unreasonable. Quite a few were made. >>



    Absolutely correct (both comments). Nice BU examples can be found in NZ for around $10.

  • farthingfarthing Posts: 3,294 ✭✭✭
    I sold a lightly circulated one here on the Swap list 3 years ago to canadiancoinguy for $10. image
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  • SapyxSapyx Posts: 2,261 ✭✭✭✭✭
    The coin is listed in Krause, under New Zealand, KM#33. Mintage given is "Est. 50,000".

    I'm pretty sure it's the Royal Mint, Llantrisant, not Ottawa, that's responsible for this coin. Krause gives the Royal Mint as the mint for the 1967 "normal" NZ 2¢ and for all pre-1969 Bahamas coins; RCM isn't listed at all among the numerous mints producing Bahamanian coinage.

    I've always wondered why Krause chose to list the mule under New Zealand, since the coin itself doesn't actually say "New Zealand". True, the coins were struck on New Zealand 2¢ blanks, sent to NZ in 1967, where they were discovered. But someone fortunate enough to find one in a scratchtray is likely to get lost trying to find it in Krause.
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  • rhound1977rhound1977 Posts: 2,504
    I have one myself, neat find.... image
  • CruziCruzi Posts: 460
    Its a Royal Mint Mule, the story is that it was made deliberately as part of industrial action at that time, apparently quite a few (approx 30,000)made it into circulation before anyone noticed and it can be picked up quite cheaply.
  • coinpicturescoinpictures Posts: 5,345 ✭✭✭
    Well now upon reflection... I'm glad I didn't see it. image

    Nice "artificial error".
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